Room 574F
Empires at the margins
Chair: Andrew O’Shaughnessy, International Jefferson Studies Center, Monticello
• James Dator (Goucher College), Imperial Indifference and Islander
Culture in the Leeward Archipelago, c. 1650-1750
• Garrett Fontenot (University of Notre Dame), French Louisiana’s 1768 Revolt Against the Spanish Empire
• Csaba Lévai (Debrecen University), Peoples, Commodities, and Culture in Negotiations Between the United States and the Habsburg Empire in the 1780s
• Samantha Seeley (University of Richmond), Managing Mobility and Making States in the Post-Revolutionary Northwest Territory

Salle des Thèses (580F)
Circulations of racialized science
Chair: Will Slauter, Université Paris Diderot
• Susan Branson (Syracuse University), Phrenology and the Science of Race in Early America
• Marcel Hartwig, (Universität Siegen, Germany), A Web of Friends:
Transnational Quaker Networks and the Pennsylvania Medical Library
• Tim Lockley (University of Warwick), Medicine, Race and the
recruitment of slaves to serve in the British West India Regiments in
the 1790s

Room 574F
Circulations of Transatlantic religion
Chair: Susanne Lachenicht, Universität Bayreuth
• Lucia Bergamasco (Université d’Orléans), Transatlantic Evangelical Connections during the Second Great Awakening
• Christine Croxall (Washington University, St. Louis), Church and
State Entwined in the Mississippi River Valley: Native Spaces,
Catholic Missions, and the Chimera of Civilization in the Early
Nineteenth Century
• Carla Gardina Pestana (UCLA), The Early Quakers, Religious
Dispersion and Managing Mobility in the 17th century Atlantic

The keynote lecture will be held at the Fondation des Etats-Unis,
together with the reception.
N.B. Due to security reasons, no access is possible for non-registered
participants at the Fondation des Etats-Unis. Badges must be worn at all times.

To allow time for traveling between the two venues, the conference
schedule includes a one-hour break between the afternoon session and the plenary talk.
Cité Universitaire, Fondation des Etats-Unis, “Grand Salon”, 15
boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Pariswww.feusa.org

5 p.m.-6.15 p.m. Keynote lecture
Chair: Irmina Wawrzyczek, President of EEASA
• Ada Ferrer, New York University: “Havana in a World of War,
Revolution, and Empire.”

Salle des Thèses (580F)
Local politics at Empire’s margins
Chair: Lauric Henneton, Université de Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines
• Gayle K. Brunelle (California State University, Fullerton), Parisian
Knowledge versus Local Knowledge in French Guiana: The Case of the Compagnie de la Terre Ferme de l’Amérique, ou la France Equinoctialle,
1651-1655
• Elizabeth Heijmans (Leiden University), French expansionism and
Inter-Imperial Relations in the African Port City of Ouidah (Bight of
Benin) during the first half of the 18th century
• Donald Johnson (North Dakota State University), Negotiating Space and Power in North American Port Cities at the End of the
Revolutionary War
• Alexander Ponsen (University of Pennsylvania), Beyond Cores,
Peripheries and Polycentricity: The Diffusion of Sovereignty in
Paraguay and São Vicente, 1600-1750

Room 574 F
Circulating gender
Chair: Manuel Covo, University of California, Santa Barbara
• Debra Burnett (University of Glasgow), The Transgressors and Tawdry: The Transportation of Women Convicts to the British Colonies During the Eighteenth Century
• Leopold Lippert (Universität Salzburg), Transatlantic Bodies of
Representation in Robert Hunter’s Androboros (1715)
• Nancy Christie (University of Western Ontario) and Michael Gauvreau (McMaster University, Canada), Contested Spaces of Law and Economy: Gendered Power within Merchant Networks in Quebec, 1760-1820

Room 574 F
Commercing
Chair: Allan Potofsky, Université Paris Diderot
• Randi Flaherty (University of Virginia School of Law), Constructing
Commercial Geographies to Compete in the Atlantic World, Boston and Salem in the Eighteenth Century
• Daniel Maudlin (University of Plymouth), The Tavern: Mobility, Built Space and Cultural Power on the Western Frontier in the Late
Eighteenth-Century.
• Julie Svalastog (Leiden University), The Merging of the British East
and West India Trading Companies in the Mid-Seventeenth Century

Salle des Thèses (580F)
Perceptions of the Spaces of Others
Chair: Joanne van der Woude, University of Groningen
• Iris De Rode (Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis), The ‘networks of influence’ of the Marquis François Jean de Chastellux, General and Philosopher at the End of the Eighteenth Century
• Carine Lounissi (Université de Rouen), An Empire for Liberty: Space and Republicanism in French Writings on the United States in
Pre-Revolutionary France
• Yevan Terrien (University of Pittsburgh), Runaways, Deserters, and Wood Runners: The Regulation of Spatial Mobility in French Louisiana (ca. 1700-1760)

Room 574 F
Work and empire
Chair: Owen Stanwood, Boston College
• Anne-Claire Faucquez (Université Paris 8-Vincennes St Denis), Bound labor in colonial New York: Degrees of unfreedom in the Atlantic World
• Allison Madar (California State University, Chico), Degrees of
Unfreedom: Convict Servitude, Indentured Servitude, Slavery and the Law in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
• Kristin O’Brassill-Kulfan (Rutgers University), ‘No other claim than
his poverty:’ Vagrancy, Slavery, and the Forced Transportation of
Paupers in the Early Republic Mid-Atlantic

The keynote lecture will be held at the Fondation des Etats-Unis,
together with the reception.
N.B. Due to security reasons, no access is possible for non-registered participants at the Fondation des Etats-Unis. Badges must be worn at all times.

To allow time for traveling between the two venues, the conference
schedule includes a one-hour break between the afternoon session and the plenary talk.
Cité Universitaire, Fondation des Etats-Unis, “Grand Salon”, 15
boulevard Jourdan, 75014 Pariswww.feusa.org

Petit Amphi
Refusing Enslavement
Chair: Marie-Jeanne Rossignol, Université Paris Diderot
• Marisa Fuentes (Rutgers-State University of New Jersey), The History of “Refuse Slaves” and the Spatialization of Death in Atlantic Port Cities in the Late Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
• Greg O’Malley (University of California, Santa Cruz), The Escapes of David George: Using Flight to Negotiate Ameliorations Under Slavery in Colonial British America
• Terri L. Snyder (California State University, Fullerton), Slavery,
Antislavery, and Mobility in Early National District of Columbia: A
Biographical Perspective

Room 12
Circulating politics
Chair: Evelyne Payen, Université Paris 3-Sorbonne Nouvelle
• Astrid Fellner (Universität des Saarlandes), Woman Defamed and Woman Defended: The Mobility of the Querelle des Femmes in the Atlantic World
• John Funchion (University of Miami), Radical Correspondences:
Transatlantic Writing against the Law in London, Paris, and the United States in the Late Eighteenth Century
• Simon Middleton (University of Sheffield), Geopolitics, Colonial
Sovereignty, and the Circulation of Paper Money in Early-Eighteenth
Century New York
• Allison Stagg (John F. Kennedy Institute for North American Studies, Freie Universität), The Movement of Visual Satire: a case study on the circulation of popular political caricatures in the early Republic

Grand Amphi
Power and Empire
Chair: Trevor Burnard, University of Melbourne
• Alyssa Reichardt (Yale), The Limits of Empire: French and British
Geographic Knowledge and Proposals for a North American Neutral Zone, 1754-1756
• Eliga Gould (University of New Hampshire), War in a Time of Peace: European Treaty-Making and the Scramble for America, 1713-1763
• Patrick Griffin (University of Notre Dame), Painting Empire: British Provincials and Imagining Empire after 1763
• Peter Thompson (Oxford), Empires of Liberty, Empires of Power in
Haiti and the United States

Room 12
Native agencies
Chair: Daniel K. Richter, McNeil Center for Early American Studies,
University of Pennsylvania
• Heather Kopelson (University of Alabama), Circulating
Incomprehension: Sights and Sounds of Wondrous Bodies in Early Modern European Accounts of the Americas
• Augustin Habran (Université Paris Diderot), The Antebellum Indian Territory: A Southern Native “colony” in the West? (1830-1850)
• Kristofer Ray (Dartmouth College), Cherokees, Indigenous Mobility, and the British Empire in the Ohio Valley, 1715-1774
• Bryan Rindfleisch (Marquette University), “The Owner of the Town Ground”: Escotchaby of Coweta and the Politics of Intimacy in the Native South, Imperial America, and the Atlantic World, 1740-1780

Room 33
Religions in flux
Chair: Auréliane Narvaez, Université Paris 4-Paris Sorbonne
• Isabelle Sicard (Université Paris Diderot), Religious
Disestablishment in Massachusetts: Overcoming Boston’s Denominational Hegemony in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Century.
• Thomas Richards (McNeil Center/Temple University), Reincarnating the Atlantic World: New England Merchants and Missionaries on the Pacific, 1820-1846
• Sharon E. Wood (University of Nebraska at Omaha), Mobility,
Claims-Making, and Brotherhood: A Family Across the Color Line in the Early Nineteenth Century United States

The dynamics which made medieval economies evolve towards « modernity » have been the subject, for two decades, of new approaches to international markets and the manufacturing processes. Recent historiographical developments, in particular through the perspective of global history, have seen researchers develop interpretative models based on quantitative analysis, and lead investigations which favor the analysis of flows in geopolitical terms or consider them through anthropological and cultural methodologies. Another major development, which has come out of business history, approaches the study of organizations and institutions of the economy through comparative sociology. The findings of these diverse approaches have not yet been the object of a general discussion, one which confronts the methods, the sources and the hypotheses of research.The objective of the Florence meeting will be to think afresh the sources relative to the European and Mediterranean economy of the 14th-16th centuries and to propose a plural approach which will address actors and their practices, material and immaterial flows, forms of organization and the markets. This congress, where the results of the collective investigation ANR ENPrESa on the Salviati archives (preserved in the Scuola Normale Superiore of Pisa) will be presented, intends to widen the lens to other archival collections, in order to grapple whith the common problems and issues arising from the exploitation of business documentation. From this perspective, the sources of business companies will be considered from two major points of view : the variety of models and practices of management and organization, and how to assess clues indicating the global evolutions of economies.The various topics addressed at the conference will enable a confrontation with the results of investigations situated in specific times, geographies, and spaces that were diversified, constructed and articulated on markets. They will mainly focus on:

The entrepreneurial structures and the modalities of action of companies

dedicated to production, trade or banking activities.

The action of « writing the activities » and the evolution of accounting practices.

The functionalities of places, the hierarchical organization of merchandise flows and moneraty circulations, concentrating on questions regarding the articulation of geographical scales, operational spaces, and the measurement of time.

The actors of industry and trade sectors : their positions in the company, their careers, their formation.

Presentations will be held in French, Italian or English. They will be accompanied by a PowerPoint presentation in another language.